Following the successful NSF QuantumOS workshop hosted in 2024 in Austin, TX, we invite you to attend the second workshop QAISys 2026 in Washington, DC.
Quantum computing is no longer solely a hardware challenge, but a systems challenge. As quantum processors grow in scale and capability, realizing their potential demands a rethinking of the entire computing stack: operating systems that manage heterogeneous quantum-classical resources in real time, compilers that adapt continuously to noisy and time-varying hardware, and architectures that integrate quantum accelerators with AI-driven edge infrastructure into coherent, dependable systems. QAISys (pronounced “Kay-see’s”)is an NSF-sponsored one-day workshop bringing together researchers from quantum computing, computer systems, AI, and edge computing to define this emerging research agenda. Through invited talks, lightning presentations, panel discussions, and collaborative working sessions, the workshop will surface the open systems design problems that the community must solve on the path to practical quantum advantage, and lay the groundwork for the cross-disciplinary collaborations needed to solve them.
This workshop is supported by the US National Science Foundation Award #2435033.
Yongshan Ding (Co-Chair), Yale
Yiran Chen, Duke
Zheng Zhang, Rutgers
Yunong Shi, AWS/UMich
Frank Müller, NC State
Lin Zhong (Yale)
Kenneth Brown (Duke)
Duke Athena AI Institute
Florian Carle, Yale Quantum Institute